Accepted! 3.5 UW 34 ACT from a strong boarding/prep school. Strong ECs and essays. Go Spiders!
Anybody accepted EA consider UR their top school?
Just wondering what the yield might be. I hope they don’t over enroll because of under estimating yield. It seems like a fantastic school to me!
My D is not yet sure because we are waiting in financial stuff and we are still learning about the programs.
No one from our school (or anywhere near us) has ever gone there.
Accepted! Financial Aid letter comes in February!
UW GPA: 3.881, W GPA: 4.668 All honors courses
SAT: 1420; 700M, 720 CRW
ECs: Church Volunteer, Boys State, Mentor, two Varsity sports, Mock Trial captain, political science program
Richmond Essay: 7/10; Talked about the relationship between the law and morality
Rec Letters: All 10/10!
Gl to everyone else!
What did everyone write about for their Richmond essay? I feel like the first prompt lent itself as a way to write about pretty much anything
Found this on the UR website - it might be helpful especially for those that got deferred.
Admit
To all admitted students: Congratulations! Given what I just described, your admission is quite an accomplishment. We are at your disposal in the months ahead, and we hope to see you on campus at one of our admitted student events. Moving forward, the New Spiders website will be your best source of information, both before and after you enroll – from now until you arrive on campus for orientation in August.
If you applied for need-based financial aid, you can expect to receive your aid package, by mail, in early February (assuming your aid application is complete). On the merit-based side, all Presidential Scholarship offers were mailed inside admission packets. The Richmond Scholars committees are still selecting finalists, who will be notified via email by the end of January.
Defer
To students whose applications have been deferred into the Regular Decision pool: Take a deep breath and regroup. Again, this was an extremely competitive EA pool; many of our deferred applications would have been very competitive in previous years’ Regular Decision pools. Though we don’t yet have a full picture of this year’s RD pool, we hope to accommodate many deferred students in the near future.
There are a few reasons we defer applications into the RD pool. In the vast majority of cases, the committee simply wants to see these applications in the context of the entire applicant pool. (This is especially true in our first year with EA, when we’re not yet sure what the big picture is going to look like.) In some cases, however, there may be something specific the committee wants to see – for example, your full first semester grades, if your first quarter grades were of concern or if you had a significant dip in your junior year and the committee wants to see a full semester’s recovery. Deferred students should feel free to contact their admission counselor and ask if there’s anything more they can do to improve their application in Regular Decision; just keep in mind that, nine times out of ten, the answer will be no, the committee just wants to review your application in light of the whole applicant pool.
A small number of applications were deferred because a key required piece of the application was missing (test scores, recommendations, the Richmond Question essay, etc.) If that’s the case, you’ll want to ensure you submit the missing document(s) as soon as possible. We do our best to notify students when their applications are incomplete, but it’s ultimately your responsibility to ensure this. Be sure you’re checking MyApp to make sure everything is on file – even if you know that you (or your school) submitted a document, that doesn’t guarantee that we received and fully processed it.
One special note regarding senior year grades: Due to recent inclement weather and school closures in many parts of the country, we released EA decisions this year with or without senior year academic progress on file; no application has been deferred because we were missing senior grades alone. Admitted students without senior grades on file will have their senior progress checked by means of their final transcript this summer; deferred students should be sure to have mid-year grades sent for Regular Decision review, regardless of whether you submitted first quarter/trimester grades.
Decline
Students whose applications were declined are students that the committee felt would simply not be competitive in Regular Decision. We’re grateful for your interest in Richmond, but admission is highly selective, and we can only accommodate a small portion of applicants. If your heart remains set on Richmond beyond this admission cycle, we encourage you to consider applying as a transfer student after a successful year at another institution; feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this option or even about what sort of curriculum to pursue in order to make your transfer application more competitive.
Once again, congratulations to all of our EA admits for the Class of 2022! Any other questions? Comment below!
Does anyone know when Richmond Scholar candidates are notified? I just got accepted but was surprised to not get the Presidential Scholarship as I have a 1600 SAT, 4.51 W GPA and diverse EC’s
@dmac21155 they said they would send out emails to finalists at the end of this week or early next
@dmac21155 - UR site says notifications for Richmond scholar finalists by email by end of January,
D Accepted today with Presidential Scholarship in TN!
34 ACT
3.96 UW / 4.48 W GPA
10 AP classes
I think on the last page someone said something about rejection letters going out later, but I just got my letter and got accepted! I live in Va and also got a presidential scholarship. Congrats to all the fellow spiders! Someone already asked this, but if you got a presidential scholarship does this help/affect your chances of being a finalist for the richmond scholars?
My son received the acceptance in today’s mail, in Long Island, NY. 32 ACT, supescore 33. GPA 4.1 weighted. Visited school and met with the local admissions rep. at couple of college fairs.
selected as a finalist for the Richmond Scholars program just nnow recd e-mail Awesome very happy best of luck to you all
@krishna147 Congratulations. What are your stats
GPA 4 (UW) (9th to 12th),
SAT: 1530 SAT.II Maths: 800 Physics:790 Good ECs Good Recos Internships what about you?
@krishna147
GPA Weighted 4.44. SAT 1490 SATII biology 730 . Math 690
Strong recommendations and good essay. And a few ECs and internship
We asked for lots in aid so not high hopes
the admissions twitter said they would tweet when emails are sent out, krishna has been posting for years about being admitted to all different kinds of colleges so don’t lose hope!
For you International students that were deferred. Here’s some positive news on the UR website. Given the limited international budget, it makes sense that they would evaluate you with all the international students in the RD process. Good luck!
An ED-deferred international student applying for aid will still be considered for the Richmond Scholars Program. Our limited international aid budget prevents us from making too many Early Decision offers, but those candidates could still be competitive for Richmond Scholars, which has a later timeline. That being said, Richmond Scholars is always extremely competitive, as outlined in the post above.
Deferred but chosen as a finalist for Richmond Scholars!
@class22 thanks a lot. Guess i better head to Twitter then
has anyone else’s admissions counselor emailed them asking to take a survey? it seemed like a mass email but weird for them to do when they won’t even tell people who havent got their letters yet their admission decision